Diary of an Album - November 2000

Here I am at the beginning of the story of my new musical journey.
Somehow I feel that I am standing in front of the most important thing I
have ever done until now - my next “guitar album”…Where will it
take me this time?

There are so many different roads to take, different directions to
go, different sounds to bring. It is like as if I am standing in a
middle of an empty room with my guitar in my hands surrounded by
ghost-like melodies, phrases, passages, harmonies swirling around me in
some other - worldly dance, waiting for me to reach out for one of them!
Waiting for me to grab them from that other dimension and give them
birth and a life of their own squeezing them out of the strings of my
guitar.

I run my fingers up and down the neck of my six-string letting them
“walk” through a few familiar passages and scales. In the past year
and a half I have gone a long way and learned a lot. I have a truckload
of tapes with new and yet unheard of musical ideas by now… “The
fruits of exploring new territories in search of paths that no one has
walked on”. New ways to sequence arpeggios, scales, different
applications of tapings and hammer-ons, blazing runs from one side of
the neck to the other,… But is that enough? To form a structure of
endless arpeggios and scale pattern runs executing them perfectly at
blinding speed just to “show off” how fast and precise it can be
done… that I can!!! But no… That is far from my final goal. For me
making music is a search for beauty. I have to find it somewhere, to dig
it out like a precious jewel hidden in the earth which is waiting to be
found, refined and exposed to those who will appreciate its shine. The
music has to take a listener through a hidden gate within himself
letting him walk through this timeless imaginary place of memories,
feelings, fantasies and dreams. Beyond this world, beyond the music,…

It takes more than just excellent technique to do that! I have to
believe in every note that I play and feel it with whole of my being in
order for anybody else who is listening to feel it…

I put my foot on the fuzz pedal and dive into a cascade of violin
type runs with a Hendrix-like roar in the sound. I am almost able
to" see" the sounds coming out of my amplifier in form of
colors and suddenly I've got this strange, charming little phrase in my
fingers that seemed to jump out of nowhere. I decide to follow it and
see where it will take me. The journey has begun!